Automobile-wheel.



J. A. FLEMING. AUTOMOBILE WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.22, 190s.

Patented Aug. 17, 1909.

I Jdi/K'dfliZf/iZQ/ f yaw I W7, atmnufl JAMES A. FLEMING, OF DANVILLE, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMOBILE-WHEEL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 17, 1909.

Application filed September 22, ,1908. Serial No. 454,163.

ing means, which in the present instance consists of plates having their rim portions flared and their centerportionsoutwardly dished.

The invention also aims to produce arimembodying a eculiar construction admitting of its rea y-connection with the body of the wheel, and to roducea device whic is strong, durable 3.1K easily assembled so as to produce a practical wheel adaptable for general usages.

The invention further consists of the novel features and details of construction set forth, illustrated, and claimed.

Referring to the drawings forming apart of the specification: Figure 1 is a central vertical cross section of a wheel embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a side viewof the wheel on a reduced scale. Fig.3 is a view in erspective of a portion of the rim detac ed from the body of the wheel and hav-' ing one of the .flanges straightened. Fig. 4 is a similar view, showing the rim attached to the wheel. Fig. 5 is a crosssection of the outer portion-of the wheel.

Corresponding and like parts are referred to in the following description and indicated in all the views of the drawings by thesame intermediate connecting or bod part.

The hub 1 comprises spaced anges 2 and reduced ends 3 which are threaded and re-' ceive clamp collars 4 having hub portions 5 hub 1 and clamped between the flanges 2, and the collars 4. The outer or rim portions of the disks, or plates 6. ilare and terminate in outer flanges which form connecting means with the rim. The central portions of the disks, or plates, are outwardly dished, whereas the intermediate portions are brought together as indicated most clearly in Fig. 1. To stifien or strengthen the plates, or disls, each is formed with a series of radial depressions 7 forming inner ribs, and the plates are so arranged thatjthe ribs of one alternate with the ribs of the other as in Fig.1, thereby admitting of the outer por-v tion of the plates coming close together and the ribs of one-touching the otherwhereby the. plates are mutually braced near their.

outer edges.

A rim '8 performs the dual office ofconmeeting the outer edges of the; disks 6 and forming a seat for a tire 9.. On the inner side of the rim 8 are ribs 10 and flangesll; The

ribs 10 are located a short distance from the edges of the-rim, whereasthe flan cs 11. are

- at the edges and are adapted to be cut over the-flan es 12 of the plates 6 and secure the same. he flanges 11 are bendable and confine the fianges 12 to the edge portions of the rim 8 exterior to the ribs 10, which prevent the inward displacement of the flanges 12.

The rim 8 is provided upon its u p'er face with flanges 13 and 15 disposed att eopposite edges of the same, beneath which are engaged the-rolls or welts of the casing 9 of the tire, in 'orderto hold the same in position. The inner tube .9" of the .ti're'is provided with a valve 24 which extends inwardly ally through a side of one of the plates 6 and serves as a means for the introduction of the air into the tire.

From the foregoing description, taken in Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. In a wheel of the character specified, comprising a body formed of com lemental members having lateral flanges at t eir outer edges, a; rim fitted to said body and havin ribs and flanges upon its inner side, 's'air flanges being bent over the lateral flanges of the body members to confine the same between the said ribs and portions of therim between the ribs and bendable flanges,

2. A Wheel as specified, comprising a hub, plates engaged over the opposite ends of said hub, collars mounted in threaded relation upon opposite ends of said hub, and engaged 15 against said plates, ribs radially formed on said plates and adaptedfor alternate engagement with one another, and a rim mounted about the outer ed es of said plates.

In testimony whereof I a x my signature 20 in presence of two Witnesses.

JAMES A; FLEMING.

Witnesses WILL B. COSSEY, CARL IDLE. 

